Time-recorder.



J. 85 A. DEY.

TIME RECORDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15, 1905.

956,309. Patented Apr.26, 1910.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15 1905.

956,309. Patented Apr.26, 1910.

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' I g ATTORNEYS UNITED STATESiiTENT OFFICE.

JOHN DEY AND ALEXANDER DEY, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS TO DEY TIME REGISTER COMPANY, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TIME-RECORDER.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN DEY and ALEXANDER DEY, residing at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Time-Recorders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to time recorders.

One of the objects thereof is to provide simple and eflicient means for placing a record receiving member in a desired position relative to the printing mechanism of a recorder.

Another object is to provide means of the above type, independent of clockwork or sep arate manual control, whereby, upon a record receiving member being correctly positioned to receive matter in a line in one direction across the surface thereof, the same will be automatically shifted in position so as properly to space the successive lines thus formed.

Another object is to provide means in connection with means of the type first referred to whereby the position of a record receiving member may be manually adjusted in either direction without affecting the relative position of the same with reference to the printing mechanism in the other direction.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the mechanism herein described and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claims.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein is shown one of various possible embodi ments of the several features of our invention, Figure l is a plan of the same. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail plan of certain parts appearing in Fig. 1. Figs. 5 and 6 are perspective views of parts appearing in Fig. 1, showing the same isolated from the surrounding mechanism.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

As conducing to a better understanding of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 15, 1905.

Patented Apr. 26, 1910.

Serial No. 265,388.

certain features of our invention, it may here be noted that when the records of time recorders were to be spaced properly without manipulation by the workman, it has been customary either to actuate certain parts intermittently, as by means of clockwork, or manually, as by an attendant. Both of such arrangements are open to objection, the former on account of the complication of the mechanism of the instrument and excessive burdening of the clockwork at the time of actuation of the intermittently driven parts, and the latter requiring the presence of an additional employee and rendering the authenticity of the records dependent upon the integrity of such person. The above and other defects are remedied in constructions of the nature of that hereinafter described.

Referring now to Fig. l of the accompanying drawings, there are shown printing wheels 1 and 2 driven by any desired means, the same not being here shown as they form no part of the present invention. Opposite these printing wheels is a card receiver comprising the front and rear plates 3 and 4; and members 5 and 6 adapted respectively to engage the lateral edges of the card or other record receiving member. These card. engaging members are spaced one from another as by the strips 7 and 8 respectively secured thereto. To the member 7 is secured as by screws 9 a rack 10 intermeshing with a pinion 11 by the rotation of which the record card is shifted laterally with respect to the printing wheels 1 and 2.

As heretofore stated the invention contemplates improved and simplified means in combination with the card guide or receiver for limiting the movement of the record re ceiving surface in one direction within the receiver and relative to the printing mechanism. Broadly stated, the feature referred to comprises a plurality of movable abutments or stops constructed and arranged to be moved progressively and successively within the receiver into the path of movement of the card and position it with rela tion to the printing mechanism.

Rotatably mounted in fixed bearings at a point substantially opposite the center of the printing wheels is what may be termed a banking roller 12, the same consisting of a vertically disposed shaft provided with a series of radial arms 13 fixed thereon and disposed spirally thereabout, said roller being held against endwise movement in said fixed bearings. These arms are of such length that when the shaft is rotated, they will be turned toward the receiver and successively and progressively projected within the receiver, as through slots lt, into the path of movement of the card, each arm constituting a stop or abutment to be engaged by the card whereby the latter is positioned with relation to the printing mechanism. In the illustrated embodiment shown there are seven of the arms 18, one arm corresponding to each day of the week and serving to bring the record for that day upon a predetermined horizontal line upon the surface of the card.

Fixed upon the upper end of the banking roller 12 is a spur gear 15 intermeshing with a similar gear 16 upon a shaft 17 ournaled upon the frame of the instrument. Mounted upon this shaft as by means of the set screw 18 is what may be termed a star wheel 19, the same being provided with a series of spur teeth 20 for a purpose hereinafter de scribed.

Mounted .upon the frame of the instrument, adjacent the star wheel 19, is a locking lever 21, the same being pivoted as at 22 and drawn as by spiral spring 23 toward the shaft 17. Lever 21, as best shown in Fig. 4- 0f the drawings, has formed thereon or secured thereto a projecting portion 2% adapted to receive within a recess 25 formed therein, one of the teeth 20 of the star wheel, thus positively locking the same against movement in either direction. A suitable pin 26 is fixed upon the lever 21 so as to per mit the same to be manually retracted upon the casing being opened so as to give access to the above-described parts.

Secured to the rack 10, as by a flange 27, is a strip 28 having thereon a block 29. This block is adapted upon the card engaging members 5 and 6 being shifted to the ex treme of their path of travel to ride over the projecting portion 2 1, such action being facilitated by the inclined surface 30 formed thereon. Upon falling below the projection 25L after having passed the same, the block 29 having reached the extreme of its path of travel is adapted when retracted to engage the inclined surface 2% thereof, thus swinging the lever 21 away from the star wheel 19. A further movement of the block 29 1n this direction causes the same to engage the tooth 20 of the star wheel which has ust been released by the locking lever 21 and swing the same throughout such an angle as to bring the next succeeding tooth into operative relation to the recess 25. The parts are so formed and adjusted as upon the latter tooth reaching the above position, to cause the block 29 to release the locking lever 21 and permit the same to snap back into a position in which the tooth 20 is engaged thereby and the star wheel positively locked against movement in either direction.

The angular position of banking roller 12, in accordance with which the instrun'lent is adapted to print upon different portions of the record receiving surface, is preferably indicated as by a disk 31 bearing characters indicative, in this illustrative embodiment, of the several days of the week. This disk is so positioned and adjusted as to show by means of the characters brought opposite an opening in the casing of the instrument, the day whose record the instrument is in condition to print.

The operation of the above-described embodiment of our invention is substantially as follows: Assuming that a record card is inserted within the receiver and successive impressions are made thereon in a horizontal line, as, for example, to indicate the entry of the workman 1n the morning, his exit and reentry at noon and departure at evening. These impressions are placed in the desired predetermined position upon the card merely by means of a proper manipulation of a crank 32 upon the shaft of pinion 11. Upon the card receiver having reached the extreme of its path of travel, however, further movement thereof being limited by any desired form of stop, it is necessary to reverse the direction of rotation of the crank 32 to shift the receiver to cause the card to be positioned so that the record printed upon the workmans entry the following morning will be correctly positioned upon the card. As the card receiver is retracted, however, by the means immediately above referred to, the block 29 releases locking lever 21, turns the star wheel 19 and permits the lever again to fall into locking position as above described, thus throwing one of the arms 13 out of its position within the card re ceiver and placing in such position the next succeeding arm. it will thus be seen that owing to the spiral disposition of the arms 13 the depth to which the card may be inserted is changed daily by successive equal steps with a corresponding disposition of the records for each day upon the surface of the card. At the end of the week or such other period of time as it is desired that a single card bear the records for, the banking roller has completed its revolution and the next arm 13 thrown into operative relation to the card receiver is at the further end of the roller from that last in such position.

It may here be noted that the terms of the nature of vertical and lateral are used throughout this description and the following claims in a loose sense as roughly indicative of relative directions and not with the absolute meaning with which they sometimes occur.

It will thus be seen that we have provided means well adapted to accomplish the sev- 5,;

eral objects of our invention and that these means are not only of the simplest and most inexpensive construction, but are so positive in action as to reduce to a minimum the chance of the instrument becoming deranged during use. The mechanism, moreover, although peculiarly adapted for use in the relation shown, is of value, as regards certain portions thereof, in other relations.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of our invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, we intend that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limit ing sense. lVe desire it also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein-described and all statements of the scope of the invention, which as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

' Having described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, a banking roller to limit the relative movement in one direction of a co-acting record card, manually controlled means to control the position of said banking roller, a visual indicator to indicate the position of said banking roller, and means positively to lock said banking roller against movement in either direction.

2. In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, a card receiver, a banking roller mounted adjacent said card receiver the arms of which are arranged to be projected within the same, manually operable means to actuate said banking roller, means adapted to lock the same against movement in either direction, manuallycontrolled means for releasing said locking means, and a visual indicator controlled in accordance with the position of said banking roller to indicate the portion of a coacting record card upon which the recorder is in position to print.

3. In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, means to control the relative lateral movement of a co-acting record receiving member, means to control the relative vertical movement of said memher, and a single manually controlled means operatively connected with both of said controlling means and adapted to control both of the same. Y

4. In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, a card guiding element, a rotatable member held against end- Wise movement and provided with spirally disposed projections constituting stops to limit the relative movement in one direction of a card, means to rotate said member and means to lock said member against rotation.

In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, means to control the relative movement of a record receiving member in one direction, means to control the relative movement of said member in another direction, and means acting automatically, upon a predetermined movement of one of said means taking place, to cause a predetermined movement of the other means.

6. In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, means to move a record card laterally with respectthereto, means to limit the relative vertical movement of a record card with reference to said printing mechanism, and means etfect-ive upon said first-mentioned means being moved through out a predetermined path of travel to cause said second-mentioned means to move throughout a predetermined path of travel.

7. In a, time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, means to move a coacting record card laterally with respect thereto, means to limit the relative vertical movement of said record card with respect to said printing mechanism, and manually-actuated means effective, upon said first-mentioned means moving throughout a predetermined path of travel, to cause said second-mentioned means to change the limit of said relative vertical movement of a record receiving member.

8. In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, means to move a record card laterally with respect thereto, means to limit the relative vertical movement of said card with respect to said printing mechanism, and means effective, upon said first-mentioned means passing a predetermined point in a predetermined direction, to cause movement of said secondmentioned means.

9. In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, means to move a record card in one direction with respect thereto, means to limit the relative movement of said record card in another direction with respect to said printing mechanism, and means e'ltective, upon said first-mentioned means completing its entire path of travel, to cause said second-mentioned means to limit the movement of said card at another point.

10. In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, means to move a record card in one direction with respect thereto, means to limit the relatiy e movement of said record card in another direction with respect to said printing mechanism, and means effective, upon said first-mentioned means completing its entire path of travel, to cause said second-mentioned means to limit the movement of said card at another point spaced a predetermined distance from the point of limitation prior to such movement.

11. In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, means to move a record card laterally with respect thereto, a banking roller to limit the vertical movement of said record card at a predetermined point, and means effective upon said first-mentioned means completing its entire path of travel to actuate said banking roller and limit the vertical movement of said card at another point.

12. In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, means to move a record card laterally with respect thereto, means to limit the relative vertical movement of said card, and means efiective upon each completion of the path of travel of'said firstmentioned means to actuate said second-mentioned means and limit said relative movement of said card at another point.

13. In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, means to move a record card laterally with respect thereto, means to limit the relative vertical movement of said card, means effective upon each completion of the path of travel 01 said first-mentioned means to actuate said secondmentioned means to limit said relative movement of said card at another point, and time-controlled means controlling said printing mechanism.

14. In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, manually controlled means to move a record card laterally with respect thereto, means to limit the relative vertical movement of said record card with respect to said printing mechanism, and

automatically acting means eliective, upon said manually-controlled means being moved to the limit of its path of travel and retracted, to move said limiting means and vary the point at which said relative movement of said record card is limited.

15. In a time recorder, in combination, time-controlled printing mechanism, manually-controlled means to move a record card laterally with respect thereto, means to limit the relative vertical movement of said record card with respect to said printing mechanism, and automatically acting means effective, upon said manually-controlled means being moved to the limit of its path 01": travel and retracted, to move said limiting means and vary the point at which said relative movement of said record card is limited.

16. In a time recorder, in combination, printing mechanism, means to move a coacting record card laterally with respect thereto, means to limit the relative vertical movement of said record card with respect to said printing mechanism, said means comprising a banking roller, means efiective to lock said banking roller against movement in either direction, manuallycontrolled means to actuate said first-mentioned means, and means efi ective, upon said manuallycontrolled means being moved to the limit of its path of travel and retracted, to move said banking roller and vary the point at which said relative movement of said record card is limited.

1?. In a time recorder, in combination, time-controlled printing mechanism, a card receiver adjacent thereto, means to move a co-acting record card laterally with respect to said printing mechanism, a banking roller provided with arms and mounted adjacent said card receiver and having its arms projecting within the same, means to lock said banking roller against movement in either direction, manuallycontrolled means to actuate said first mentioned means, and means connected with said manually-controlled means and effective, upon the same being moved to the extreme of its path of travel and retracted, to release said banking roller, move the same throughout a predetermined distance and relock the same.

18. In a time recorder, in combination, time-controlled printing mechanism, a banking roller adjacent said printing mechanism, manually-controlled means to move a co-acting record card laterally with respect thereto, means operatively connected with said 1nanually-controlled means operating upon passing a certain point in a certain direction to release said banking roller, move the same throughout a predetermined distance and relock the same, and a visual indicator con trolled in accordance with the position of said banking roller.

19. In a time recorder, in combination,

time-controlled printing mechanism, record card receiving means, means to determine the lateral position of a card relative to said printing mechanism, a banking roller to limit the relative vertical movement of a record card, a member provided with out wardly projecting teeth operatively onnected to said banking roller, a locking member to engage one of said teeth and lock said banking roller against movement in either direction, manually-controlled means operatively connected with said first-mentioned means, and a member connected with said. first-mentioned means adjacent said locking member constructed upon passing the same in one direction to pass over the same and adapted upon movement in the opposite direction to release said locking member, rotate said toothed member throughout a predetermined distance and permit said locking member to engage another 01 the teeth thereon.

20. In a time recorder, in combination, time-controlled printing mechanism, means to move a co-acting record card laterally with respect thereto, a rack connected with said means, a pinion gearing with said rack, a crank operatively connected with said pinion and to manually control the lateral position of a record card with respect to said printing mechanism, a banking roller mounted adjacent said printing mechanism to limit the relative vertical movement of said card, a gear upon said banking roller, a second gear meshing therewith, a member provided with outwardly projecting teeth in fixed relation to said second gear, a spring-pressed locking member to engage one of said teeth and lock said banking roller against movement in either direction, a member connected with said first-mentioned means and projecting adjacent said locking member construct ed upon movement in one direction to pass over the same and upon movement in the other direction to release said locking member, move said toothed member throughout a predetermined distance and permit said locking member to engage another of said teeth.

21. In a time recorder, in combination, time-controlled printing mechanism, means to move a co-acting record card laterally with respect thereto, a rack connected with said means, a pinion gearing with said rack, a manually operated crank operatively connected with said pinion to control the lateral position of a record card with respect to said printing mechanism, a banking roller .mounted adjacent said printing mechanism to limit the relative vertical movement of said card, a gear upon said banking roller, a second gear meshing therewith, a member provided with outwardly projecting teeth in fixed relation to said second gear, a spring-pressed locking member to engage one of said teeth and lock said banking roller against movement in either direction, a member connected with said first-mentioned means and projecting adjacent said locking member constructed upon movement in one direction to pass over the same and upon movement in the other direction to release said locking member, move said toothed member throughout a predetermined distance and permit said locking member to engage another of said teeth, and a visual indicator operatively c011- nected with said banking roller to indicate the position thereof.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures, in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN DEY. ALEXANDER DEY.

\Vitnesses CLARA SACKETT RAYMOND, F P. TARFIELD. 

